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to build a wheel well just takes patience and not trying to adjust anything too violently
as long as you understand the mechanics of it, and ideally if you have a tensionmeter for the spokes you should be able to do a good job
however good wheelbuilders have had a lot of practice so tend to do it faster and get good results quickly, the same can generally be achieved by us mortals but a lot more slowly
another thing good wheelbuilders can do is understand how to do more esoteric wheelbuilds, eg wheels for very specific purposes
but if you are just looking for a fairly simple 3 cross or similar you should be able to do it yourself